Hospital Sued by Doctor With AIDS
BALTIMORE — A former Johns Hopkins Hospital cardiologist filed a $35-million suit against the hospital Thursday, claiming that it allowed word that he had AIDS to leak out among his colleagues and ruin his career.
Hacib Aoun, 32, of Baltimore, who is married and has a 1-year-old child, said in his lawsuit that he contracted AIDS while treating a patient at Hopkins in February, 1983. He was cut on his finger when a glass tube of blood withdrawn from the patient broke.
The lawsuit filed in Baltimore Circuit Court alleges that Hopkins officials allowed word of Aoun’s illness to spread among his colleagues.
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